Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Shaffi Mather: A new way to fight corruption
Once my boss asked this question. He said we have to answer this very sincerely.
The scenario is you are dropping off your friend at the railway station at 1.00AM . and driving back your car home. You reach a traffic junction and the signal is RED. There are no other vehicles crossing the juction and for sure there are no cops around. The question is, will you wait for the green light or will you jump? And he said if the answer is yes you will jump or even if the answer is "not sure" then you don't really have the right to talk againt the corruption-- small or big..
Sure I don't have the rights to speak about corruption. But I do dare to blog.
Friday, December 18, 2009
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Corporate Medical exploitation
My friend who lives in Bangalore who has a fast and strenuous lifestyle like any other IT professional. He had some stomach ache and lack of appetite for few days. On a similar occasion a year back he did have an incident of losing consciousness for a few minutes. He was worried and called me to take him to a hospital.
I called up few hospitals nearby and found out that the nearest point to a gastroenterologist and located one at Apollo hospital Bannerghatta road.
We went there and registered at the counter and waited for the doctor for nearly an hour. There was a huge queue. Finally our name was called and to our disappointment it was to an antechamber where a junior doctor took the details about my friend’s problem while in parallel talking over mobile phone. He was not interested in what we gave as inputs but rather had a set of questions which apparently he had the answers too because he finished writing the report before the conversation was over.
We were asked to wait outside to have the final dharshan of the main doctor. After a while we found the main doctor walking out and we rushed and interrupted him to find out our fate. He remembered the name and told he had advised us to go for a scan of the abdomen and then come for an endoscope procedure the next day. Overall charges will be around a few thousands. When I asked him why he require a scan and an endoscope he was considerate enough to suggest scrapping the scan and insisted on endoscopy.
My friend decided to take some omeprazole tablets for the next week which completely cured his illness and was back in normal form.
If my friend would have been a less literate person, he would have gone for a small clinic and the doctor would have suggested any antacids or omeprazole for a week and then took action based on the result.
Upper the value chain we spend more and get less or get worse. This is the shame that we have in our heath care sector. Exploitation is not the right word. We have to coin a new word for exploitation by making us believe that we got a great deal. The most unfortunate thing is that this is spreading to middle and low income access health clinics as a better business model.
Affordable Healthcare is a dream as of now.
I called up few hospitals nearby and found out that the nearest point to a gastroenterologist and located one at Apollo hospital Bannerghatta road.
We went there and registered at the counter and waited for the doctor for nearly an hour. There was a huge queue. Finally our name was called and to our disappointment it was to an antechamber where a junior doctor took the details about my friend’s problem while in parallel talking over mobile phone. He was not interested in what we gave as inputs but rather had a set of questions which apparently he had the answers too because he finished writing the report before the conversation was over.
We were asked to wait outside to have the final dharshan of the main doctor. After a while we found the main doctor walking out and we rushed and interrupted him to find out our fate. He remembered the name and told he had advised us to go for a scan of the abdomen and then come for an endoscope procedure the next day. Overall charges will be around a few thousands. When I asked him why he require a scan and an endoscope he was considerate enough to suggest scrapping the scan and insisted on endoscopy.
My friend decided to take some omeprazole tablets for the next week which completely cured his illness and was back in normal form.
If my friend would have been a less literate person, he would have gone for a small clinic and the doctor would have suggested any antacids or omeprazole for a week and then took action based on the result.
Upper the value chain we spend more and get less or get worse. This is the shame that we have in our heath care sector. Exploitation is not the right word. We have to coin a new word for exploitation by making us believe that we got a great deal. The most unfortunate thing is that this is spreading to middle and low income access health clinics as a better business model.
Affordable Healthcare is a dream as of now.
Low Cost Standard Therapeutics
Founded in 1983, has been serving the poor by making only rational, essential, quality drugs at the lowest possible prices. Makes more than 60 essential medicines in 80 formulations (liquids, capsules, tablets).
By virtue of having its own factory has tried to demystify production in a small way.
http://www.locostindia.com/
By virtue of having its own factory has tried to demystify production in a small way.
http://www.locostindia.com/
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Beauty and the guilt – Concept of drishti
We have an ancient culture rich with many beautiful forms of art. The concept of beauty (visual) has been prominent in all these forms. The colors, the texture of different materials, and the compositions are a treat to our eyes. But somewhere in our psyche we have this notion of anti beauty embedded.
Mareecha the demon disguised as a beautiful deer with a golden skin is the true turning point in our epic Ramayana. Sita attracted by the beauty of the deer falls into a trap. Truly depicts the concept of “beauty is skin deep”.
Every little kid cute looking gets an asymmetric black spot on the cheek to keep away the evil eye. Beauty always evokes a set of emotions which are not considered good or rather treated as an evil thought which need to be normalized by adding bit of visual aberrations.
The beautiful deity sculpture inside the temple comes with a demon face right on top as to balance out the looks.
All the oriental cultures have this concept of dualism. A way to balance out the positives and the negatives. May be the concept of beauty and the guilt also fall into the same theme.
Mareecha the demon disguised as a beautiful deer with a golden skin is the true turning point in our epic Ramayana. Sita attracted by the beauty of the deer falls into a trap. Truly depicts the concept of “beauty is skin deep”.
Every little kid cute looking gets an asymmetric black spot on the cheek to keep away the evil eye. Beauty always evokes a set of emotions which are not considered good or rather treated as an evil thought which need to be normalized by adding bit of visual aberrations.
The beautiful deity sculpture inside the temple comes with a demon face right on top as to balance out the looks.
All the oriental cultures have this concept of dualism. A way to balance out the positives and the negatives. May be the concept of beauty and the guilt also fall into the same theme.
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